The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-04-30
The TRAINING.

l. At Home. The child Moses was taken
by his mother and nursed and cared for in
his own home. How longhe remained in his
Hebrew home we are not definitely told; sew
eral years we may infer from the impression
that was evidently made upon the child's
mind and character, long enough to identify
him in his own thought with the enslaved
race, and to instil into his mind and impress
upon MS heart the knowledge and worship of
the GoD of Israel. He was doubtless care
fully taught the traditions of his people, the
promise made to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob,
and the hope of their descendants of 5ecom-
ing, under GoD, great and free nation in
the land where their fathers dwelt. He was
also trained in the morals of their religion
faith in COP, obedience to parents and love
toward all. His early education in the home
of his mother was never forgotten, even amid
the worldly splendors and temptations of his
royal home, into which he afterward entered.
Earliest impressions are most lasting Re-
ligious instruction and training ought to be-
gin in the home and in earliest childhood.
"Train up child in the way he should go,
and when he is old he will not depart from
it, proverbs xxi. g..
2. At Court. When the child had grown to
certain age not mentioned, though it may
have been stipulated in the agreement be-
tween the princess and the mother, he was
brought to the kings daughter, who adopted
him as her son, and named him Moses -
"drawn out" from the circumstance of his
having been brought forth from the water.
Being adopted into the royal family, he re-
ceived a thoroughly Egyptian training and
was educated in all the learning of the Egypt
ians Acts vii. ~: in literature, geography,
engineering, astronomy, architecture, music
and arithmetic, the arts and sciences known
to have been cultivated in ancient Egypt. He
was also mighty in his words and works.
trained in the arts of war and the science of
government.
In the two homes Moses received the train
ing that fitted him for the great Providential
work of his life. Born a slave, of devout
and godly parents, and educated a prince, he
was prepared to be his peoples deliverer.
When he was grown up (forty years of age),
we are told that he allied himself with his
enslaved people, and refused to be called
son of Pharaoh's daughter, choosing rather
to suffer evil with the people of GoD than to
have temporary enjoyment of sin, "ac-
counting says the writer of Hebrews, the
reproach of the CHRIST greater riches than
the treasures of Egypt" Hebrews xi. "a, 25).
There are many points of resemblance in the
life of Moses to him "who for the JOY that
was set before him, endured the cross, de-
spising the shame' Hebrews xii. p. An in
cident connected with the abuse of his peo-
pie made him an exile in the wilderness of
Arabia, where for another forty years of SOL
itary thought and communion with COP, he
was being prepared through the development
of his religious character and acquaintance
with the country of his sojourn, to lead the
Israelites, by the command of GoD, from
Egypt, through a long wandering in the same
wilderness to the promised land.